Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick

    Quote collections: Directing · Cinematography

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    • “A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
      Directing#soundSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and make a movie of any kind at all.”
      Directing#cameraSource: curated filmmaking batch, quote aggregator filmmaker
    • “If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.”
      DirectingSource: curated filmmaking batch
    • “[On Dr. Strangelove]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...] What could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?”
      Directing#screenwritingSource: goodreads filmmaking
    • “If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”
      CinematographySource: goodreads cinematography

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